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V GREAT GELDING GLOAMING DIES Word has just come from New Zealand that the great gelding Gloaming has died in his sixteenth year. The winner of fifty-seven races and 15,500 in prize money the great racer was bracketed with Phar Lap and Carbine as "The Big Three" of the Antipodean turf. Gloaming was a son of The Welkin and Light, and won at all distances up to a mile and a, half. Gloaming was bred by E. D. Clark and was sold as a yearling for ,150, in rough figures, to G. D. Greenwood, whose colors he carried in all successes. He was trained by R. J« Mason. Gloaming could carry all weights and has to his credit several sprinting records that still stand. In his sixty-seven starts he won fifty-seven, was second nine times, and the only time he was unplaced fell at the start.
